Powershell split - powershell

Question

I have a problem with LastWriteTime.
I need to split this value:
09/26/2014 10:14:34 09/26/2014 08:09:59
I tried this:
foreach ($line in $data){write-host $line}.
But I need to write it to $date1 and $date2.
This is the code I use:
$Folder = Get-ChildItem "\\SERVER-14\data$\backup" -Exclude $ExcludeFolders -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Sort-Object LastWriteTime -Descending | Select Name, LastWriteTime -first 2
$LastFolderName = $Folder.Name
$LastFolderTime = $Folder.LastWriteTime

Answer 1

If you know you're always getting 2 objects as specified by -first 2 in your Select-Object, you can directly reference them:
$date1 = $folder[0].lastWriteTime
$date2 = $folder[1].lastWriteTime

Answer 2

If all you want to do is assign the first and second last write time to variables then append this to your script:
$date1 = $Folder[0].LastWriteTime
$date2 = $Folder[1].LastWriteTime
But you won't always know if the folder contains two items. By right you should be doing all the work for each item inside the foreach loop
foreach ($file in $Folder)
{
#Do something
}

Answer 3

For splitting strings, you can use the Powershell -Split operator which uses a regex argument to control the split, or for simple cases like this you can use the dotnet [string] split method, which splits on an array of characters:
PS C:\> $line -split ' '
09/26/2014
10:14:34
09/26/2014
08:09:59
PS C:\> $line.split(' ')
09/26/2014
10:14:34
09/26/2014
08:09:59
Either way, you're going to get an array of the split elements. Then you can selectively assign those to variables using array slicing:
PS C:\> $date1,$date2 = ($line -split ' ')[0,2]
PS C:\> $date1
09/26/2014
PS C:\> $date2
09/26/2014
PS C:\> $date1,$date2 = $line.split(' ')[0,2]
PS C:\> $date1
09/26/2014
PS C:\> $date2
09/26/2014
See:
about_split
string methods

Answer 4

$value = "09/26/2014 10:14:34 09/26/2014 08:09:59"
$data = $value.Split(' ')
# $data contains 4 values --> date, time, date, time
#i set up some variables
$date = $true;
$savedDate = "";
# Here we process the $data
$data |
# For each in powershell = %
%{
#every odd line ( if $date is true), we save the date value
if($date){$date=$false;$savedDate=$_}
# every even line (if $date is false), we stick together the date and time
else{$date=$true;$savedDate+ " " + $_;}
}
Very "straight forward" solution...(maybe not so simple, sorry)
Split on whitespace
Iterate over all the strings,
each time you have a date and a time string following each other.
Thus save the first one as the date,
every second value contains the time, put it together and continue with the next date...